Rajant Wireless BreadCrumbs Safe from Newly Discovered Wi-Fi Protected Access Security Attacks
Rajant Corporation’s Wireless Mesh Systems Are Completely Secure From Temporal Key Integrity Protocol Attacks
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Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable, high-speed mobile wireless networking solutions, announced today that its BreadCrumb® users need not be concerned about the newly discovered Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) security attacks, as they are protected through advanced protocols designed for sensitive government applications.
TKIP was designed by the IEEE 802.11i task group and the Wi-Fi Alliance as a solution to replace a less robust security protocol called WEP without requiring the replacement of legacy hardware. This was necessary because the breaking of WEP had left Wi-Fi networks without viable link-layer security and a solution was required for already deployed hardware. The Wi-Fi Alliance endorsed TKIP under the name Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). The IEEE endorsed the final version of TKIP, along with more robust solutions such as 802.1X and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based CCMP, when they published IEEE 802.11i in 2004. The Wi-Fi Alliance soon afterwards adopted the full specification under the marketing name WPA2. Recently, two researchers have published the vulnerability details of TKIP.
“Because of its relationship to WEP, which has been easily breakable for years, we have long suspected that it would only be a matter of time before TKIP was also vulnerable” said Marty Lamb, Software Development Manager at Rajant. “Our military and other security-conscious customers required us to support CCMP with key sizes up to 256 bits for the most secure mobile wireless systems accessible by off-the-shelf client devices. All a user needs to do is click ‘CCMP’ - for either WPA or WPA2 – and the TKIP attacks become irrelevant.” He continued, “Our mesh encryption has always been based on AES-256 and is also immune to these attacks.”
The Rajant BreadCrumb ME2 is currently under certification testing for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A CCMP-only configuration is strictly enforced when running in FIPS 140-2 mode.
About Rajant:
Rajant Corporation enables secure communications-on-the-move through a portable meshed wireless network that can rapidly reconfigure and adapt in real-time. Rajant’s BreadCrumb® Wireless solutions provide networks for Military, Mining, Homeland Security, First Responders and Public Safety and provide voice and data communications across a meshed, self-healing network. Rajant’s BreadCrumb network nodes communicate with IP based client devices such as laptops, PDAs, video cameras, satellite terminals, networked radios, RFID’s and sensor devices. Please visit http://www.rajant.com or call (484) 595-0233.